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PROUD WEST END
A free, audio-visual ‘living portraits’ exhibition featuring spoken stories from 15 LGBTQIA+ people exploring what proud means to them is taking over Old Quebec Street during Pride. Proud West End will feature portraits accompanied by candid spoken stories accessible by QR code, from a range of individuals including drag queen Divina de Campo, founder of Queer Brewing Company Lily, Graysen from the Mosaic Trust, and Jason from Swingers Oxford Street.
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WES ANDERSON ASTEROID CITY EXHIBITION
- Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
In the run-up to the hotly anticipated new release from Wes Anderson, 180 The Strand is bringing the world of Asteroid City to London. Similar to their French Dispatch pop-up, this immersive exhibition will feature original sets, props, costumes, artwork, visuals and sounds that’ll fully transport you to the film’s fictional desert town. Plus, you’ll get to eat at the already iconic Asteroid City diner, as a 1950s-era recreation will be set up onsite.
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GENETIC AUTOMATA
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Friends and collaborators Larry Achiampong and David Blandy are bringing Genetic Automata to the Wellcome Collection, an exhibition that explores race and identity in this age of avatars, videogames and ancestry DNA. The show will feature four films that delve into the subject of scientific racism and how it persists today, whether in education, healthcare, science, politics, or another sector. The duo’s latest work, _GOD_MODE (2023), has been co-commissioned by the Wellcome Collection, Black Cultural Archives (BCA), and Wellcome Connecting Science to premiere as part of the series. Each film includes a spoken word soundtrack and imagery from video games, with a specific focus on those with dystopian sci-fi narratives that deal with the unethical use of genetic material.
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CARRIE MAE WEEMS | REFLECTIONS FOR NOW
- Monday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Tuesday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Wednesday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Thursday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Friday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Saturday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Sunday: 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM
The Barbican is hosting the first major UK exhibition on American multi-disciplinary artist Carrie Mae Weems. She’s known for investigating themes of identity, desire, power and social justice in work that also addresses representations of gender, race and class. This exhibition will feature photographs, films and installations from across three decades of her career, including ‘Kitchen Table Series’, which explores power in the domestic space; ‘Roaming’ and ‘Museums’, which look at the way architecture can express power; and ‘The Shape of Things’ on the history of violence in the US.
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SUMMER EXHIBITION AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
The RA Summer Exhibition is one of the highlights of the city’s artistic calendar and this year’s edition looks set to be another cracker. David Remfry is co-ordinating this year’s show, which has the theme ‘only connect’, and includes works in every possible medium from established artists, Royal Academicians and emerging talent.
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QUEER JOY
Skittles, Gay Times, Queer Britain and Getty Images are all teaming up for the free, open-air exhibition Queer Joy. 50 portraits of queer people taken by LGBTQ+ photographers will be displayed around Granary Square, Pancras Square and Battlebridge Place in King’s Cross, showcasing queer self-expression and assisting in a multi-year campaign to fill the gaps in the LGBTQ+ archive.
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GAIA
Luke Jerram, the artist who hung that model of the moon in the Natural History Museum in 2019 and has done the Earth at the Old Royal Naval College and the Kensington & Chelsea Festival, is back showing Gaia at the Landmark Arts Centre, as part of the new Arts & Ideas Festival in Richmond. The illuminated 3D installation, measuring seven metres in diameter, features detailed NASA imagery of the planet’s surface accompanied by surround sound from composer Dan Jones.
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CHILA KUMARI SINGH BURMAN AT RICH MIX
- Monday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Tuesday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Wednesday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Thursday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Friday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Chila Kumari Singh Burman, who was responsible for that epic Diwali installation at Tate Britain in 2020, is bringing her famous neons to Rich Mix. She’ll be taking over the venue’s Streetside Space for the free show, which’ll feature pieces that reference her Punjabi heritage, her childhood memories of growing up in the north, Hindu mythology, and British iconography, including ‘3k Heart’, ‘Bindi and Neons’, ‘Standing Krishna with Flute’ and ‘Punjabi Rockers’.
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NICK WILLIAMS
In honour of Mental Health Awareness Month, Nick Williams is exhibiting his latest series of paintings that showcase the impact of art on the mind at 54 The Gallery in Shepherd Market. Having suffered mental breakdowns himself, painting is a saviour for him and this exhibition is one full of colour and hope. Williams uses the architecture and interiors he saw on a trip to Cuba; a lush subtropical garden, which he first imagined and then recreated at home; and the pair of snakes he looked after and the shedding of their skins as inspiration for his work, where he explores the theme of escape.
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MONOLITH AT OUTERNET
- Monday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Thursday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Friday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Saturday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
- Sunday: 8:00 AM – 11:30 PM
ADOT Foundation, Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and artist Jack Dartford are teaming up on immersive artwork Monolith, to be displayed on the wraparound screens at Outernet London to raise awareness around mental health and anxiety. The piece, created by Jack and featuring audio from sound designer Halina Rice, reacts in real time as the viewing crowds grow, with the millions of digital particles that make up the monolith shape rapidly change colour, move and accelerate in an increasingly frantic fashion, with the accompanying soundtrack becoming more frenetic. It’s designed to explore the feelings of anxiety by simulating complete sensory overload, creating empathy for those who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks.
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LUXURY AND POWER | PERSIA TO GREECE
- Monday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 8:30 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The British Museum is exploring the relationship between luxury and power in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550-30 BC, a period when the Persian empire clashed with ancient Greece before Alexander the Great conquered the region. Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece will feature a range of objects – including the Panagyurishte Treasure consisting of nine gold vessels, a Persian silver griffin-shaped rhyton, a Greek pottery rhyton in the shape of a lion’s head, and gold oak wreaths from Turkey – that explore the contrasting approaches to luxury in Persia and Athens, and how Alexander fused eastern and western styles of luxury together.
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SOLAIRE CULTURE & SUNNY SIDE UP CAFE
After hitting Tokyo and LA, Veuve Clicquot’s 250th anniversary exhibition Solaire Culture is landing in London. The free immersive experience takes you on a journey through the house’s heritage, with historical documents and an original bottle of Veuve Clicquot from the 1840s on display. There will also be original artworks inspired by Madame Clicquot and the power of the sun (a reference to the bottle’s famous yellow label) from nine renowned female artists, including Yayoi Kusama, Shelia Hicks and Moyoco Anno, on show. And after popping up in Soho last year, The Sunny Side Up Café is back, this time with a food menu from Andi Oliver – dishes include Andi’s braised short rib burger, dippy eggs with Marmite soldiers, green shakshuka and sweet plantain waffles – paired with plenty of bubbles.
